Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-02-05
FOafi-AiiTH CDSuRESs,
second session,
SENATE.
WAsHINGoN, Feb. 4.

! 90 WAsHlSGoS. Fe0. 4.
Mr., Hoar reported to the Senate a resolu
ton for the investig alton of the Pacific rail-
roads, and asked for immediate consldera
ton.
Mr.. Hale objected to immediate consiiera.
ton, and it therefore went to the calendar.
Nj Hoar giving notice that he would cali il
up at the first opportunity.
Ihe Dill provides for the protection of the
interests of the government bv authorizing
the President to redeem any of the first
mortgage lien, and provides that for the
future shall be paid to the government 40 in
stead of % per cent.
The Senate proceeded to the consideration
CT the Senate bill to credit and pay several
States and Territories and the District of
Columbia all moneys collected under direct
tax levied by the act of Aug 5, 1861,
| Mr.. Sherman advocated and explained the
bill he said it had been several times rec
commended by the treasury department,
partly as an act of justice, and partly to re-
leve the department. OF legal complications
ltreferred to the tax of $40, 900 600 imposed
ouFlng the war on all States. north and so ith
10 those northern States who paid L prompt
ly discount of Is per cent. had been allowe d
but some few of those States did not paw
promptly and since the war some of it h al
been collected from some of the southern
States.
After some discussion the bill was passed.
yeas 53, nays l-Mr. Van Wyck.
The bill directs the secretary of the treas
ury to credit to each st 'te and Territory and
to the District of Columbia sum equal to
all collections made from them under direct
tax act 1t RENTS and relnquishes all of the
tax still due, and it appropristes suffi .ient
SUN to reimburse the States for all moneys
due to them under the provisions of this act
to be PAID their respective governors, provid-
ed that where taxes had been collected from
citizens, either directly or by the sale of
property, the amount shall be held in trust
for them or legal representatives by the re-
spective States.)
The Senate then resumed consideration of
the railroad attorney bill and was addressed
by Mr.. Wilson of Iowa in favor of the bill
The Senate then proceeded to vote on the
bill. The first vote was taken on the amend
ment offered by Mr.. Hoar, making it unlaw-
tul for any member of Congress to accept
employment as attorney in opposition to the
United States, in any case to which the
Unted States is party or IN which its inter-
ests may be concerned, or from any subsi-
dlZed railroad company, if such member
have cause to believe that measures specially
affecting the intert sts of such railroad are
pending be ere Congress or are about TO be
80 pending during his term of office, was the
nature of the substitute to the original bill
and was agreed to-26 to 81. The next vote
was on the amendment offered by Mr. Call to
the Committees substitute striking out all of
it not strictly applying to members of Con-
gress acting ds attorneys. The amendment
was TT tjected-ayes 25, nays 26. The next
, question WAS the amendment offered by Mr..
salisbury as a substitute to the substitute
i rpuprtpH u tho in1ipiary Tho
debate on this amendment led to considerable
asperity between Messrs. Beck and Sauls-
bury.
Mr. Beck criticised the amendment severe
ly and SAID that the object of his bill was TO
say that those members of Congress who, on
any pretex: whatever, in the employment of
railroad companies, who had probably re.
ceived fees ten times out of proportion to
their services in order to have their friend.
ship, could not occupy such relations with
a great show of fairness. The senator from
Delaware, as fair a man as was in tle Sen
ate, had been induced to believe that it was
a hardship on lawyers in Congress to prevent
them from taking fees from such corpora
tions, except in cases where they were in
controversy with the government itself,
Every enemy of this bill, every man who
sought to defeat it by direct or indirect
means was amending it and adding to il and
supplementing it. He sent to the clerk ;
desk and had read extracts from the Record.
showing that last session Mr. Salisbury had
voted yea on the passage of the bill and had
voted nay on the motion to refer it to the lu-
dietary committee. He had desired before
the final death of the bill (because
Mr.. Hoars amendment had destroyed il
and Sausbury's amendment was only intend
ed to lay it little bit more decenty in the
grave) to make this statement. He was
willing to stand by the record made by the
gentlemen at the last session who then un-
derstood fairly the purpert of the bill but
who are now willing to license every man in
both houses to be acting attorneys for these
great railroad corporations. No intelligent
man in the couDtry would believe the amend
ment of the senator from Delaware would
8 do any good and some people would be
malicious enough to think that it was not in
tended it should. He regarded it absolutely
worthless. 1t was mild bread pill
: Mr. Salisbury said he could not let the re-
marks OF the Senator from Kentucky pass
unnoticed. He willingly conceded to that
senator a monopoly of all talents and virtues
of the Senate. That the senator certainly as
sumed 1t for himself was evident, and so he
I would not controvert his position. But he
thought it little ungenerous in the senator
to denounce other gentlemen who saw proper
to differ from him. The tendency of thai
senator's remarks had been to snow that be
cause the senator had voted for his bill or
| the Impulse of the moment, and afterward.
had changed his views, that change of view
| had not been honest.
Mr.. Beck-I have neither claimed special
virtues nor suggested that anybody who
changed his vote had done so dishonesty.
denv it.
Mr.. Saulsbury-You said the Senator from
Delaware had voted for your bill and had
been induced" to change his opinion.
would like to know what is the meaning OF
the term induced" as applied by the Senator
from Kentucky. If that senator attempts to
cast any reflection on the action of mvself OF
any other senator
: Mr.. Beck (interrupting) The senator
from Delaware knows | said there was nc
man whose integrity was higher than his.
Mr.. Saulsbury-Then the senator should
} be more guarded in his expressions.
MIR. Beck-I will leave record Of my re-
marks untouched, and if the senator finds in
them tomorrow anything attributing an i'm
proper motive to him, will apologize for it,
Mr. Hoar characterized the original bill as
a grossly unconstitutional, awkward, crude
ill drawn, ill considered. i'll conceived sys
tenn, which is not only an insult to the Sen
; ate but an insult to the American people
The bill did not come of any public or popu.
ia, aon,ond It csme from anonv mona arti-